France (Burgundy) Flashcards
This is Burgundy’s largest white wine-growing region?
Chablis
Name three communes contained within the Grand Auxerrois?
Vezelay
Irancy
Tonnerre
Joigny
This is Burgundy’s second largest white wine-producing region?
Maconnais
This is traditionally the wettest month of the growing season in Burgundy?
May
What is Chardonnay referred to as in the Yonne?
Beaunois
What is Chardonnay a crossing of?
Pinot Noir
Gouais Blanc
Name the appelation in the Yonne that focuses on Sauvignon Blanc?
Saint-Bris AOP
Pinot Blanc is a green-skinned mutation of?
Pinot Noir
What is Pinot Gris referred to as in Burgundy?
Pinot Beurot
Name three varieties found in the Yonne aside from Pinot Noir & Chardonnay?
Cesar
Tressot
Sacy
The reds of Irancy are based off this grape?
Cesar
Grand Cru AOPs account for what percentage of production in Burgundy?
2%
Which additional grape does Coteaux Bourguignons AOP allow in its wines?
Gamay
Where are the Bourgogne Hautes Cote de Nuits AOP & Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Beaune AOP located?
Low mountains just west of the Cote d’Or
What color are Cote de Beaune Villages AOP wines?
Red
Which villages in the Cote de Beaune are not allowed to provide red fruit for Cote de Beaune Villages AOP wines?
Pommard
Volnay
Aloxe-Corton
Beaune
Which villages in the Cote de Beaune are not allowed to provide red fruit for Cote de Beaune Villages AOP wines?
Pommard
Volnay
Aloxe-Corton
Beaune
Name three villages that provide fruit for Cote de Nuits-Villages AOP wines?
Fixin Brochon Prissey Corgoloin Comblanchien
This grape provides the wine base for a Kir cocktail?
Aligote
What are the minimum compositional requirements form Bourgogne Passe-Tout-Grains AOP?
30% Pinot Noir
15% Gamay
Name Burgundy’s two sparkling wine AOPs?
Cremant de Bourgogne AOP
Bourgogne Mousseux AOP
What kind of wines does Bourgogne Mouesseux AOP produce?
Sparkling reds via traditional method
What is particular about Cremant de Bourgogne AOP?
All fruit must be hand-harvested
This commune is the concentration of production for Cremant de Bourgogne AOP?
Rully (Macon)
Name one stipulation of grand cru monopole law?
All fruit must be hand-harvested
This is the smallest grand cru in Burgundy? It’s size? The proprietor?
a) La Romanee
b) .85 ha
c) Domaine Liger-Belair
This is the largest grand cru in Burgundy? It’s size?
a) Corton
b) 160 ha
Explain “murgers.”
Piles of rock removed from vineyards during tilling
Define “climat.” How many total climats exist in Burgundy?
a) A single vineyard in Burgundy
b) More than 1200
Define “parcel.”
A single, contiguous holding within a vineyard owned entirely by one grower
Define “clos.”
A vineyard enclosed by a stone wall
Define “commune.”
An administrative unit of local government encapsulating a town and its immediate surroundings
Blagny is considered a _______________ of Pulligny-Montrachet.
Hamlet
From what vintage forward was Comte de Vogue’s Musigny blanc declassified to Bourgogne AOP?
1994
Name three areas encompassed by the Comtes Rhodanienes IGP?
Beaujolais AOP
Savoie (parts)
Northern Rhone Valley
These were considered to be the first “Burgundians?” They arrived in which century?
a) Germanic Barbarians
b) 5th Century AD
This was the first appearance of a “grand cru” in Burgundy? During what century?
a) Chambertin-Clos de Beze
b) 7th Century AD
These were the two most influential monastic orders in the early development of Burgundy?
Benedictines
Cistercians
Explain the origins of Romanee-Conti?
In 1131, the priory of Saint-Vivant de Vergy was gifted several plots of unplanted land in Vosne. Once planted, the “Clos de Cinq Journaux” would become the modern day Romanee-Conti.
The first “clos” vineyard appeared courtesy of the? The vineyard?
a) Cistercians
b) Clos de Vougeot
Name four grand crus cultivated by the Cistercians.
Montrachet
Echezeaux
Richebourg
Musigny
This year saw the uprooting of most of Burgundy’s prized vineyards only to be replanted with Pinot noir? By whose orders?
a) 1395
b) Philip the Bold
This was the first year of the infamous “Hospices de Beaune” auction?
1859
Approximately how many wines does the Hospices du Beaune produce annually for auction?
Four dozen
1676 saw the first climat-labeled wines courtesy of these two vineyards?
Chambertin
Chambertin-Clos de Beze
This was the first “real” classification of Burgundy.
Denis Blaise-Morelot
1831
This is considered to be the first “seminal” classification of Burgundy?
Jules Lavalle’s
1855
When/where was the first instance of Phylloxera in Burgundy?
1878/Meursault
This man designed the pruning system by which most of Burgundy was replanted to in the 19th century?
Dr. Jules Guyot
What is coupage?
The labeling of wine based on flavor profile (such as the case with port)
The AOC system was introduced in this year?
1935
The first AOC premiere cru appered in this year?
1942
What is “fermage?”
A simple agreement in which the tenant pays cash to lease a plot of land
What is “metayage?”
A form of sharecropping in which a vigneron farms a parcel of land they do not own and makes the wines for the owner in exchange for the opportunity to take fruit from the parcel for his own wines
What is primogeniture?
The right of the firstborn son to inherit the family’s estate
The Napoleonic Code was established in this year?
1804
This is the largest land-owning entity in the Cote d’Or? The year the house was established?
a) Bouchard Pere et Fils
b) 1731
Name three of the earliest advocates of domaine bottling in Burgundy.
Armand Rousseau
Marquis d’Angerville
Henri Gouges
Grivot
Approximately how many domaines exist in Burgundy (with production of at least 10,000 bottles)?
4,000
The average amount of land owned by a domaine in Burgundy?
7-8 ha
Name two early-employed preventative measures to combat phylloxera?
Flooding vineyards
Carbon disulfide treatments
Romanee-Conti was finally replanted to phylloxera resistant rootstocks after this vintage?
1945
The prevalent vine-training system of Chablis?
Double Guyot
The prevalent vine-training system of the Cote d’Or?
Single Guyot
Name two significant vineyards in which rows do not follow the typical east-west orientation?
Clos de Lambrays
La Romanee
Clos de Tart
Cote d’Or AOP requires no less than _________ vines planted per ha.
9,000
The common vine-spacing in the Cote d’Or?
1 x 1 Meter
Define “Lutte Raisonnee.”
Whereby a grower limits chemical applications to times of necessity.
Define “Lutte Integree.”
Compounding from the ideals of Lutte Raisonee, Lutte Integree first considers natural methods in place of synthetic methods when combatting pests.
This was the first estate to adopt a biodynamic approach in the Cote d’Or? Year?
a) Domaine Jean-Claude Rateau
b) 1979
Name two recent vintages highly affected by rot/mildew?
2007
2011
2012
This wood-rotting disease has been the most recent concern of Burgundy’s vineyards?
Eutypa dieback
This bacterial infection is another area of recent concern for Burgundian vineyards? What spreads the disease?
a) Flavescence doree
b) Leafhopper insects
Name two hail-ridden vintages from the mid-twentieth century.
1945
1951
1953
1957
Explain aspersion.
Vignerons spray vines with water to protect spring buds in a cocoon of ice which prevents temperatures inside from further plummeting.
The last truly devastating frost year in Burgundy?
1985
Three recently troubled vintages in the Cote de Beaune from hail?
2012
2013
2014
What is coulure?
A viticultural hazard that is the result of metabolic reactions to weather conditions that causes a failure of grapes to develop after flowering (shatter).
What is millerandage?
A potential viticultural hazard problem in which grape bunches contain berries that differ greatly in size and, most importantly, maturity.
What is selection clonale?
Replanting using clones
What is selection massale?
Propagating with cuttings from various existing vines in the vineyard
The famous appearance of Pinot Blanc in 1936?
Henri Gouges “Clos des Porrets”
This was the year clonal selections began to appear in Burgundian vineyards?
1971
The first Dijon clones were based off of cuttings from this vineyard?
Domaine Ponsot “Clos de la Roche”
What are some of the benefits of cold soaking?
Color extraction, less astringent tannin development, enhances development of fruit aromatics
The maximum intracellular ABV that can be produced through carbonic maceration?
2%
Two other regions outside of Beaujolais that employ carbonic/semi-carbonic techniques?
Rhone Valley
Loire Valley
What does stem inclusion do to the pH of a final wine?
Raise levels because of potassium harbored in the stems
Some attribute this process to premature oxidation if White Burgundy?
Whole-bunch pressing
Is Chaptalization legal in Burgundy?
Yes
What is subtractive must enrichment?
Allows producer to remove water from the must to concentrate the remainder by a maximum factor of 10%
Is acidification legal in Burgundy?
Yes
Is it legal to both chaptalize/acidify the same wine?
No
When does malo typically finish?
Between March & June of the following year after harvest
Where is the Francois Frere cooperage located?
Saint-Romain
What is the volume of a “piece?”
228 L
The village of Chablis sits on the banks of which river?
Serein River
Name the three governing AOPs of Chablis?
Petit Chablis AOP
Chablis AOP
Chablis Grand Cru AOP
These two disastrous occurrences pillaged Chablis in the 1880s?
Phylloxera
Powdery Mildew